Pivot and swivel mechanism for laptop display

Maybe it’s unfair to include this design in a gallery of weird laptops–it swivels like a desktop monitor in a way that was both clever and useful. Zeos sold this design as the Freestyle in the early 1990s; I don’t know how successful it was, but I’m guessing it wasn’t a huge hit, since it didn’t last long. Perhaps its reputation was hurt by a faulty floating-point coprocessor that caused it to get math wrong.

Left out the Canon NoteJet series of the 1990s which were Canon Laptops (similar to the Innova Book Line) with built in Canon Notejet printers and available scanner cartridges. interesting machines but at a terribly expensive price point at the time.

The number 6 is on the wrong side. Yes, I know that’s how MS does/did it on their early split boards. Those are wrong, too. At least, if you were taught as I was. The right index finger is supposed to type it.

I really do NOT want to have to click twenty-freakin-three times just to read one article that should comfortably fit on probably 4 or 5 pages – just so you can impress your advertisers with a grandiose number of ‘page impressions’ per visitor.

Additionally, you’re totally screwing your site crawlability. To Google et. al, page 23 appears as being 23 clicks (levels down) from the article index. You don’t even have an index page that deep-links directly to the individual sub-page by name.

Overhead projectors are still in use. In my college, they are integrated into the ceiling of every lecture and meeting room. The screen is electrically operated, and there are connectors for the audio and video-out of the laptops. The main use is to be able to provide tutorials for applications, Powerpoint presentations for lectures and papers. Hardly anyone uses acetate sheets with handwritten text and drawings.

The swiveling screen (#10) is in use on OLPCs and is rather nice (especially since in the OLPC version, you can flip it all the way around and lock it down to have a gameconsole-like tablet.)

Also, second the complaints about the godsawful navigation. It’s physically painful, and poorly implemented. Or perhaps that’s an implementation success – if reading your site hurts, people are more likely to click away, thus enabling you to reach high clickthrough rates without having to resort to low-grade content to drive visitors away?

A few with actual pictures might have been nice. Patent searches are largely a waste of time. We want to see actual pictures. Not drawings of devices that the patent holders probably never intended to create anyways. Boring.

The problem with SafeType is the constant holding of the lower arms straight out with no support. It will cause fatigue of the biceps.

The best one I saw was a home-made model where a Dvorak keyboard was split with each piece attached to the side of the chair. The hands would be hanging comfortably at the sides, palms facing the body, no pronation, nothing. The inventor of this keyboard design was starting to suffer from RSI when he got the idea.

#10 was never intended to be used as a tablet. The screen on the Freestyle cannot rotate 180 degrees and then foldback upon the chassis. It had a short life due to it's design and construction quality. It simply had a high failure rate. ZEOS had introduced better models designed with Sanyo around that time and it was dropped after diligently trying to keep it going. Zeos went on to make some pretty neat laptops. Check out the ZEOS Pocket pc and the Transport (released by Micron post merger). Yes, by the way, I used to work there.

Maybe it’s unfair to include this design in a gallery of weird laptops–it swivels like a desktop monitor in a way that was both clever and useful. Zeos sold this design as the Freestyle in the early 1990s; I don’t know how successful it was, but I’m guessing it wasn’t a huge hit, since it didn’t last long.Suchmaschinenoptmierung

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I really do NOT want to have to click twenty-freakin-three times just to read one article that should comfortably fit on probably 4 or 5 pages – just so you can impress your diminished value with a grandiose number of 'page impressions' per visitor. Additionally, you're totally screwing your site crawlability. To Google et. al, page 23 appears as being 23 clicks (levels down) from the article index. You don't even have an index page with angry birds online that deep-links directly to the individual sub-page by name.

Hi there just wanted to give you a brief heads up and let you know a few of the images aren’t loading correctly. I’m not sure why but I think its a linking issue. I’ve tried it in two different browsers and both show the same outcome.Glucomannan

Herewith, a gallery of designs from Google Patents (click the filing dates to see the patents). There?s only one in here I might have considered buying, but on some perverse level I admire them all.מומחה קידום אתרים

What a write!! Very informative also easy to understand. Looking for more such posts!! Do you have a my space? I recommended it on digg. The only thing that it’s missing is a bit of new design. Anyway thank you for this blog.Cariszone

There have been a number of weird laptop designs over the years. From the “ebook”, LG's badly named laptop, which runs on liquid fuel rather than a rechargeable battery, to ThinkPad's 755, whose screen can be removed and put on an overhead projector, laptop designers have tried a number of strange things to make their laptop stand out.Roupas da Moda

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